I Don’t Like The Dirt!

I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you.

Jeremiah 29:11, THE MESSAGE

A little girl walking in a garden saw a particularly beautiful flower and promptly picked it because she felt it was too pretty to be in the dirt. She then took the flower home and rinsed the dirt off with water. Shortly thereafter, the flower wilted and died. When the owner of that garden saw what the little girl had done, he exclaimed, “You have destroyed my finest bloom!”

“I’m sorry, but I didn’t like it in all that dirt,” said the girl.

The gardener responded by saying, “I chose that spot and mixed the soil because I knew that only there could it grow to be a beautiful flower.”

Sometimes we become like that little girl, fixated on the dirt of our lives instead of seeing the beauty and growth that will emerge in time. But once we have seen the hand of God in our lives, we have assurance that we can trust His sovereignty. So if it feels as if nothing good will ever come from what you are going through, be patient and steadfast, knowing that God “plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV).

I have lived a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men!

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN